Warehouse-truck.



A. PETERSON. WAREHOUSE TRUCK. APPLICATION FILED JULY 5. 1916.

Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

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ALEX PETERSON, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

WAREHOUSE-TRUCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 27, 1917.

Application filed July 5, 1916. Serial No. 107,562.

To all whom it may concern:

e it known that I, ALEX PETERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San F rancisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in l/Varehouse-Trucks, of which the following is a specification.

he present invention relates to improvements in warehouse trucks.

In loading a heavy object on to a truck of this character it is at present the practice for the truckman to reach out with one hand and pull the ooject on to the truck while tilting the truck from an approximately vertical to an inclined position. Then the load is very heavy this requires very great exertion on the part of the operator. It is the object of the present invention to provide a warehouse truck where by the labor of loading heavy objects on to the truck will be greatly reduced.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a perspective view of showing a barrel loaded thereon; Fig. 2 is a front view of the truck unloaded; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the truck on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a transverse section thereof on the line 4% of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates my improved warehous truck. Secured at their ends to side bars 2 of the truck, and spaced gle-irons or bars 3,

which can be used to engage a load to be carried by the truck. While said chain can slide in the slot between the two angle-irons Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the my improved truck i it cannot slide therethrough, for the distance between them, the thickness of each link of the chain, is less than its width, so that if said link be arranged in a plane at right angles to the longitudinal bars, it cannot pass through said slot.

To permit the chain to move in a plane at an angle with the longitudinal bars, in order to vary the length of that portion of the chain which serves to hold the load to the truck, the inner edges of the longitudinal y said e operator may then take hold of the truck with both hands and tilt it from the approximately vertical position to that in which it can be wheeled upon the ground.

I claim l. A truck having two parallel bars eX- tending longitudinally mm a point near the upper end of the truck to a point below the center of the truck and if that of each link of the chain.

2. A truck having two nally extending bars, and between the bars and having and t e space between the enlarged at a point thereon to permit the chain to pass therethrough.

ALEX PETERSON.

Washington, D. C. 

